United for Quality Patient Care at MultiCare

We are the nurses, service, tech, and healthcare workers of SEIU Healthcare 1199NW at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, and MultiCare Valley Hospital in Spokane Valley. As frontline caregivers, we are dedicated to our shared mission of delivering quality care to our Spokane community.

What’s at stake?

As healthcare workers at MultiCare hospitals in Spokane and Spokane Valley, we have made incredible sacrifices these past four years, often placing our own lives on the line to care for our communities during the pandemic.

While MultiCare — a Tacoma-based healthcare system that paid $11.3 million to their top 7 executives in 2022 — claims that “your communities are our communities,” they’ve delayed reaching a fair agreement with our union bargaining teams.

MultiCare executives refuse to value the frontline staff that care for our communities. Without a fair contract in place that would help us recruit and retain experienced caregivers, quality care is at risk.   

What we’re fighting for

To keep our patients in Spokane safe, MultiCare must agree to strong contracts that will staff us safely and pay us enough to support our families.

We’re fighting for:

  • Wages that recruit and retain, so we can achieve safe staffing levels that guarantee we’re providing the best care possible.
  • Affordable healthcare options for the healthcare workers who care for our community.
  • Protections to hard-won standards on overtime, paid time off, and sick leave.

Share your patient story

As healthcare workers, we seek to identify and document the impact of staffing on patients by collecting stories of their experiences at MultiCare Deaconess and Valley Hospitals. Our goal is to work together with management to implement solutions that recruit and retain qualified staff, fulfill the need for quality care access in our community, and have a safer workplace. 

Do you have a recent experience as a patient at a MultiCare hospital?  We want to hear from you! Please share with us your positive or negative experiences as a patient at MultiCare.

MultiCare is out of town and out of touch

We know that the Tacoma-based MultiCare hospital system has the resources to improve conditions in our hospitals in Spokane, but their priorities do not align with ours. It’s frontline workers, not corporations, who know best what our patients and communities need.

MultiCare executives claim that “your communities are our communities,” and MultiCare is making money, but where does it go? MultiCare is:

  • Prioritizing profits and executive pay. MultiCare’s CEO Bill Roberston, in the last year of available data (2022), was paid $3.6 million in total wages. In total, MultiCare spent $11.3 million on their top seven executives in 2022; up from $9.3 million in 2021.
  • Focusing on expansion at all costs. MultiCare is licensed to operate 2,457 inpatient hospital beds, and it recently purchased 30 acres of land outside of Spokane for $15.7 million!
  • Under federal investigation for alleged false billing and endangering patient safety.

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